WATERBURY — Marcin Bucon, Myrna Medina and Ahdawan Bonaparte have seen the future. All three are very optimistic.

Bucon, Medina and Bonaparte are three of the students who make up the first class passing through Naugatuck Valley Community College's new Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center. The 6,400-square-foot center, which occupies most of the fourth floor of NVCC's Technology Hall, was dedicated Wednesday in a ceremony that featured comments from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Waterbury Mayor Neil M. O'Leary.

The center is designed to train the next generation of precision manufacturers to use "incredibly expensive machinery to cut incredibly expensive pieces of metal," Malloy said.

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